"The meager and absurdly idiotic meals, the hunger, a genuine and excruciating hunger that attacks the nerves; the lice, those little bugs that, if we could, we would eliminate in five minutes and against which we must sustain an exhausting and sterile fight. And the cold, that new enemy that has not been new, sharpens your nerves," wrote Pere Vives (Barcelona, ​​​​1910 - Mauthausen, 1941) to the poet Agustí Bartra on December 14, 1939. A little over a month later, on January 27, 1940, he sent him the last one. He would send his family one last one, from a prisoner-of-war camp, on June 22, 1941. After that, there was a long silence, because it was not until after the Second World War that Vives's mother learned that her son had died in October 1941 in Mauthausen, where he had been deported two months earlier. He never sent any letters from the concentration camp, and the only witness to how he died is the one left by his companion. Joaquín Amat-Piniella to KL Reich: had been given a shot of gasoline.